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think you ought to be enjoying your money, but
the Museum is not able at present to do it, and
unless we can find some one who will make them
a gift to the Museum I am afraid I shall have
to ask you to wait a little longer."
At another time Mr. Jesup said, "The Im-
perial Royal Museum of Vienna has now the larg-
est collection of meteorites in the world, but
with the Cape York Meteorites in its posses-
sion, the Museum of Natural History will have
by far the most valuable."
Mr. Jesup also wrote me, "The Museum
will purchase your meteorites."
Two of these meteorites have been in
the possession of the Museum since 1895. The
third and largest for several years. This
group constitutes fifty per cent or more of
your foyer siderite collection.
During all these years the meteorites
have been entirely at the disposal of the Mu-
seum, to handle and exhibit as it thought best,
and neither Commander Peary nor I have made any
attempt either to dispose of them elsewhere, or
to hurry the Museum to conclude the matter.
Today, through Mr. Jesup's beneficence,
the Museum has a million dollar fund, the in-
terest of which, by his request is to be de-
voted to the buying of specimens.
Possibly nothing could be more in line
with the wishes of Mr. Jesup and those who will
always hold his memory in reverence, than that
this group standing at the head of all known
meteorites, should be added to the Museum's
treasures, with his name attached, and go down
to posterity as his last great direct gift to
the Museum's collections.
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